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Ireland.
scene of Masonic enjoyment , which was heightened by the benevolent object of charity , we have now to report that we have received a mass of correspondence touching the excitement that the occasion gave rise to . It would appear that a strange misunderstanding as to the true nature of the ball , had disposed some too zealous members of the R . C . church to express their dissent from the pulpit , and in the observations made , the character of a Masonic worthy was alluded to in a manner
that his best friends deservedly reprehended . AVe cannot enter into such an explanation as may fully satisfy our correspondents , but think it due to them , and to the excellent Mason alluded to , to give the following extracts from the Limerick Chronicle . A letter to the editor of that
paper , with remarks which we presume to be editorial , contain some memorable points , and the reader may feel interested in perusing some retrospective remarks at page 200 , 1837 , of this Review . Another Limerick paper has followed up the subject in a strain of special pleading that tells marvellously against its own conclusions . As tbe writer evidentl y knows nothing of the practical objects of Freemasonry , it is better to leave him to his own reflections . Our object is peace not schism . —ED . —F . Q . R .
" The Roman Catholics of St . Michael ' s were publicly cautioned at the parish chapel on Sunday last , March 27 th , by the officiating priest , not to attend the fancy ball , under penalty of exposure and denunciation from the altar , next Sunday ( to-morrow ) , when their names would be published ! If we don ' t err , the exercise of this arbitrary and imperious threat upon a former occasion , was for several years after the cause of a wide schism in the parishand long estranged many
respect-, able families from worship in the same chapel . The event was then greatly condemned , and was the source of long and unavailing regret . But was this rev . gentleman aware , while conceiving he impressed the law of his church , that he also threatened to violate the law of the land , which it is his peculiar province , as a clergyman , to uphold , and his first duty as a subject to obey . To preach ' peace and good will' amongst
men , to inculcate respect to the constituted authorities , and submission to ' the powers that be , ' is the business of a minister of Christ ; not to defy the ordinances of his sovereign , or contemn those laws which protect him and all other of her Majesty ' s subjects from insult or injury , and both are now menaced ! Nous verrons . —At the last Kilkenny assizes an action for damages was brought by a respectable farmer against his parish priest , for denouncing him by name at the altar , and the rev .
defendant submitted to a verdict for forty pounds damages , and sixpence costs . " " A bitter invective has been indulged against the high sheriff of this county , for advocating the orphans' cause on Thursday last , and attributes his doing so to his indignation at having the Masonic Orphan Charity denounced by Roman Catholic clergy in this city . AVe are authorised to state , that he never referred to any creed but the one he
himself professes , or to any Masonic grievance . But it is supposed the cap fits , and yet they expect a gentleman , who has ever been the advocate of liberal and generous principles , is to act the hypocrite , and silently permit the objects dearest to his heart to be vilified and traduced AV ' e do happen to know that he is devoted to a society , whose first grand principles are faith , truth , charity , and brotherly love , and yet so tolerant , though inviolable , are its ancient landmarks , that even after a public denunciation from the Roman Catholic altars of this city , a reference to
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Ireland.
scene of Masonic enjoyment , which was heightened by the benevolent object of charity , we have now to report that we have received a mass of correspondence touching the excitement that the occasion gave rise to . It would appear that a strange misunderstanding as to the true nature of the ball , had disposed some too zealous members of the R . C . church to express their dissent from the pulpit , and in the observations made , the character of a Masonic worthy was alluded to in a manner
that his best friends deservedly reprehended . AVe cannot enter into such an explanation as may fully satisfy our correspondents , but think it due to them , and to the excellent Mason alluded to , to give the following extracts from the Limerick Chronicle . A letter to the editor of that
paper , with remarks which we presume to be editorial , contain some memorable points , and the reader may feel interested in perusing some retrospective remarks at page 200 , 1837 , of this Review . Another Limerick paper has followed up the subject in a strain of special pleading that tells marvellously against its own conclusions . As tbe writer evidentl y knows nothing of the practical objects of Freemasonry , it is better to leave him to his own reflections . Our object is peace not schism . —ED . —F . Q . R .
" The Roman Catholics of St . Michael ' s were publicly cautioned at the parish chapel on Sunday last , March 27 th , by the officiating priest , not to attend the fancy ball , under penalty of exposure and denunciation from the altar , next Sunday ( to-morrow ) , when their names would be published ! If we don ' t err , the exercise of this arbitrary and imperious threat upon a former occasion , was for several years after the cause of a wide schism in the parishand long estranged many
respect-, able families from worship in the same chapel . The event was then greatly condemned , and was the source of long and unavailing regret . But was this rev . gentleman aware , while conceiving he impressed the law of his church , that he also threatened to violate the law of the land , which it is his peculiar province , as a clergyman , to uphold , and his first duty as a subject to obey . To preach ' peace and good will' amongst
men , to inculcate respect to the constituted authorities , and submission to ' the powers that be , ' is the business of a minister of Christ ; not to defy the ordinances of his sovereign , or contemn those laws which protect him and all other of her Majesty ' s subjects from insult or injury , and both are now menaced ! Nous verrons . —At the last Kilkenny assizes an action for damages was brought by a respectable farmer against his parish priest , for denouncing him by name at the altar , and the rev .
defendant submitted to a verdict for forty pounds damages , and sixpence costs . " " A bitter invective has been indulged against the high sheriff of this county , for advocating the orphans' cause on Thursday last , and attributes his doing so to his indignation at having the Masonic Orphan Charity denounced by Roman Catholic clergy in this city . AVe are authorised to state , that he never referred to any creed but the one he
himself professes , or to any Masonic grievance . But it is supposed the cap fits , and yet they expect a gentleman , who has ever been the advocate of liberal and generous principles , is to act the hypocrite , and silently permit the objects dearest to his heart to be vilified and traduced AV ' e do happen to know that he is devoted to a society , whose first grand principles are faith , truth , charity , and brotherly love , and yet so tolerant , though inviolable , are its ancient landmarks , that even after a public denunciation from the Roman Catholic altars of this city , a reference to